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The Inquisition, what a show!
The Inquisition, here we go!
We know you’re wishin’ that we go away
You better change your point of views today
’cause the Inquisition’s here and it’s here to stay!

 – Mel Brooks, “History of the World: Part 1”

(Chuck Muth) – Nevada’s decades-old legal brothels have been under a withering assault by the Morality Police for the better part of the last two years, led by a creepy Reno lawyer named Jason Guinasso.

Aiding and abetting this home-grown gaggle of crusaders has been a national group calling itself “Exodus Cry.”

Exodus Cry, like Guinasso, intentionally misleads the public with their incendiary propaganda by conflating voluntary prostitution – including in Nevada’s legal brothels – with “slavery” and “human trafficking.”

It’s despicably dishonest – and the group’s arguments should be dismissed out of hand on that basis alone.

But a new development reveals why this new-fangled group of sex puritans – and as you’ll see, I mean that literally, not figuratively – shouldn’t be given the time of day by anyone wanting to have a serious discussion of this issue.

However, before I get to the explosive Exodus Cry “Chapter Application” that was uncovered and publicized this past weekend, let’s set to rest once and for all the true motivation of these people, as explained by Laila Mickelwait, the group’s “Director of Abolition,” in a tweet on June 14…

“It’s not the legal status of prostitution that causes the harm, it’s the prostitution itself. The longer a woman is in prostitution – legal or illegal – the more she is psychologically damaged and physically harmed. The only way to make her safe is to get her out of prostitution.”

As you can plainly see, Mickelwait’s focus isn’t on “slavery” or “human trafficking.”  She’s a commercial sex-work abolitionist.  A religious puritan bent on forcibly “saving” consenting, adult women who don’t buy into her pop psychology and don’t want to be “saved.”

But let’s say you share Laila’s “savior complex” and want to join her modern-day Inquisition crusade.  Well, first you have to fill out an application.

Or, you DID – until the “Chapter Application” itself was “outed” last weekend by Dr. Gemma Ahearne (@princessjack).  And boy, is it ever a revelatory doozy!

“Thank you for your interest in working with Exodus Cry to see the ending of human slavery,” the organization declares in its opening statement on the application.  “As you start a chapter in your city, you are committing to host a weekly prayer meeting focused on the ending of slavery and to work to bring awareness in your community on the issue of human trafficking.”

Got it?  “Slavery” and “human trafficking.”  Who can argue with that, right

Ah, but later on we get to the group’s “Mission Statement” which adds “the outlawing of Prostitution worldwide” – which is decidedly NOT the same as “slavery” and “human trafficking.”

Funny how that wasn’t included in their opening statement, huh?

Onward…

Applicants wishing to start an Exodus Cry chapter in their city have eight “requirements” they must fulfill to join the Inquisition – including a commitment to the Exodus Cry “Purity Covenant” and “Statement of Faith.”

Hmm.  Sounds a little more like a religious crusade than an effort to end slavery, but maybe that’s just me.  Let’s see…

“Jesus taught that when we go out into this world, our primary focus should be to reconcile others to God,” reads the “Values” statement applicants must agree to.  “Our social justice methodology is fueled with a desire to see the salvation of both the oppressed and the oppressor.”

Nope, I was right.  This is Evangelism 101.

But if you’re still not convinced, let’s move to Exodus Cry’s chapter application “Questionnaire”…

Question #1: “What are your past church/spiritual affiliations?”

Odd.  Does this mean only actively practicing religious people can fight slavery and human trafficking?

Question #2: “Were you the victim of any kind of child abuse?”

Well, Mom made me eat broccoli.  Does that count?

OK, sorry.  That was flippant.

Real child abuse is a serious matter – and anyone who hurts an innocent, defenseless child should be drawn and quartered.

But this still seems like an awfully personal question for an employment-like application to fight slavery, doesn’t it?

Question #3: “Are you currently in a relationship, outside of marriage, which involves ongoing sexual activity.”

Seriously?  You can’t join the crusade against slavery, human trafficking and even prostitution if you’re having pre-marital sex?

Question #4: “Do you have any non-sexual compulsive behaviors?”

Uh-oh.  I guess my friend and UNLV sex researcher Christina Parreira’s compulsion for Christian Louboutin shoes is a disqualifier, even though the word “Christian” is in the name!

Question #5: “Have you completed an inner healing program/ministry of any kind?”

Um, no.  Guess I’m out, too.  Christina, let’s go shopping!

Question #6: “Are you currently or have you ever been in professional counseling?”

So I guess if you’ve ever been to a marriage counselor to save your marriage – and the permissible married sexual activity that comes with it! – you can’t be a soldier in the Exodus Cry crusade against slavery and human trafficking.

Question #7: “Do you use alcohol, illegal drugs or other mood-altering substances?”

Well, there goes Homer Simpson and the gang at Moe’s Tavern!

Also, all the Catholics who drink wine with communion at mass on Sunday.

Question #8: “Are you currently taking any prescribed medication?”

So much for diabetics and folks suffering from high blood pressure.

Seriously, what the Hades do these questions have to do with fighting slavery and human trafficking?

But if you want to know what REALLY pushes these folks’ buttons, check out the next two questions…

Question #9: “Are you or have you struggled with homosexual thoughts, feelings or behaviors?”

And…

Question #10: “Do you believe that homosexual physical contact or inordinate emotional closeness with the same sex is sinful?”

OK, this isn’t as bad as the Westboro Baptist Church’s “God Hates Fags” campaign, but the sentiment sure sounds similar.

In any event, why can’t gays join Exodus Cry’s crusade against slavery and human trafficking?

And, um, by the way…what’s the definition of “inordinate emotional closeness”?  Does it include the guys in the “I Love You, Man” Bud Lite commercials?

Oh, wait.  They’re already disqualified for drinking beer.  Bad example.  Onward…

Question #11: “Do you believe heterosexual sex outside of marriage is sinful?”

OK, this one is kinda redundant redundant.  See #3 above.

Question #12: “Are you currently struggling with pornography?”

Question #13: “Have you struggled with pornography in the past?”

Um, does that include the Victoria’s Secret catalogue?  What about the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition?  Inquiring minds wanna know.

OK, kidding aside, these people aren’t out to eliminate “slavery” and “human trafficking.”  Their true agenda is revealed in the group’s “Purity Covenant” that applicants must sign…

“The Purity Covenant is a personal commitment to wholehearted sexual purity.  One of the great battles facing our generation is the battle for sexual purity.”

What exactly does that mean, you might ask?

Well, clearly these folks are committed to eliminating sex entirely unless it’s between one married man and one married woman – as long as they’re married to each other, of course.

And, I’m guessing, you can only do it “missionary style” for the sole purpose of making a baby – and the woman may NOT enjoy it.

Anything else is considered by this group to be “licentious sexual activity” which puts you “into agreement with Satan” and “releases demonic energy into the realm of the spirit.”

Lord, I hope South Park does an episode on this!

Then there’s the group’s “Statement of Faith,” which is immersed in extreme religious dogma only a tiny minority of people ascribe to.

I’m not even going to get into that.  If you want to read the entire thing yourself, click here to see the series of screen shots Dr. Ahearne took before Exodus Cry removed the application from their website.

Personally, I find the entire document to be absurd.  However…

I’m a live-and-let-live kinda guy.  If this is what some folks choose to believe, fine.  As Thomas Jefferson so eloquently put it…

“It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

But when it comes to using the power of government to enforce their brand of morality on those who don’t share their beliefs, that’s where we need to draw the line.

The fact that Exodus Cry has gone to such great lengths to mislead the public – hiding behind “slavery” and “human trafficking” to promote their “sex purity” crusade – demands they be called out.

Which I just did.

Now…it’s Miller Time.

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a limited-government grassroots advocacy organization, and government affairs counsel to the Nevada Brothel Association.  His views are his own.

(Chuck Muth) – Ever build a snowman?  You start with a small snowball you can hold in the palm of your hand.  Then you roll it in the snow until it becomes bigger and bigger, to the point that you can build a six-foot snowman.

Well, that’s exactly what’s happening with the idea that commercial sex between consenting adults should no longer be a jailable offense.

On May 31, 2019, Mexico City lawmakers voted 38-0 to legalize prostitution.

“It’s a first step that has to lead to regulation of sex work, to fight human trafficking and strengthen the rights of sex workers,” said Temistocles Villanueva.

Got that?  They’re LEGALIZING prostitution to FIGHT trafficking.

Which makes perfect sense.  Victims of actual sex trafficking are often scared to death to report their situation to authorities for fear of being arrested themselves.

But the idea of decriminalizing the world’s oldest profession isn’t just a new development in a foreign country.  The snowball effect is underway here in the United States, as well.

In Washington, DC – the nation’s capital – City Councilman David Grosso introduced a bill this month that could make DC “the first U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution involving consenting adults.”

The operative words are “consenting adults.”

As Councilman Grosso pointed out, his bill “does not change any of our laws regarding coercion or exploitation, which will continue to be prohibited in the District of Columbia.”

Mexico City and Washington, DC are two cities trying to get it right.  But the movement is growing even to the statewide level.

“In New York,” reported the New York Post last week, “a group of lawmakers vowed earlier this year to introduce a bill to legalize prostitution.”

Why?

“Backers of the proposed bill,” the Post noted, “said they believe that legalization would reduce sex trafficking and protect the women who rely on the industry to make a living.”

Reduce sex trafficking.  Protect the women.

And that’s EXACTLY the experience of several rural Nevada counties (but not the cities of Las Vegas and Reno), which legalized brothels almost 50 years ago.

The women work in a safe environment.  They are required to use condoms and are tested weekly for sexually transmitted diseases – which protects the public health.  Indeed, there has NEVER been a single case of HIV/AIDS in Nevada that can be traced back to a legal brothel.

And the women who work there do so voluntarily.  Not only do they have to apply for a job to work in a legal Nevada brothel, they are required to be finger-printed and undergo a rigorous FBI background check.

As such, Nevada’s legal brothel industry is an unqualified success story.

But the abolitionists aren’t going quietly into that good night.  They’re pitching a fit and force-feeding the public healthy doses of disinformation and Soviet-level false propaganda.

A former illegal prostitute out of Dallas, Rebekah Charleston, is all over the media these days claiming – without corroboration or verification – that she was “trafficked” by her pimp against her will in a pair of Nevada brothels.

Notably, she can’t (or won’t) tell anyone when this allegedly happened – though it appears to have been in the early 2000’s.  And, to the best of my knowledge, she’s never identified her alleged pimp and trafficker.

Seems odd not to rat out the man she claims forced her into prostitution against her will, doesn’t it?

There are also no employment records of Charleston working at those brothels and none of the people working there at the time remember her.  And there’s no record of her ever being issued a work card by the sheriff’s office – a license REQUIRED to work in a legal brothel.

No, we’re just supposed to take her word for it – even though she’s a convicted felon; not for prostitution, but for tax evasion and bank fraud.  Oh, and admitted in the NY Post article that she would “just sit around and get high (on meth) all day.”

Yeah, very credible.

Nevertheless, “Bekah” – as she wishes to be called now – continues to throw shade on Nevada’s legal, consensual, adult commercial sex workers; claiming they aren’t happy and shouldn’t be allowed “to do what she wants.”

A claim heartily rejected by the women actually working in Nevada’s legal brothels.

“We are human beings who chose to do sex work on our own free will,” says Kiki Lover.  “We get treated with respect and like family at the brothels. It’s a job just like any other job. We sell a service that all humans need.”

“I’m not ‘exploited.’ I’m not ‘trafficked.’ I’m not ‘brainwashed,’” adds Paris Love.  “I don’t need to be ‘saved.’  I’ve freely chosen this line of work, which is a legal, private transaction between consenting adults.”

Exactly.  As it should be.

Charleston is a born-again abolitionist-evangelist whose prohibition strategy has never worked and never will.  Just look at alcohol, gaming and marijuana.  As Alice Little of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel notes…

“It’s ILLEGAL sex work that exploits children. It’s ILLEGAL sex work that traffics. It’s ILLEGAL sex work that sees women exploited and abused by pimps.”

Charleston’s foolish notion that criminalizing sex between consenting adults will “eliminate demand” for sex is absurd on its face.  Prostitution is currently illegal everywhere else in the country.  Has that diminished demand?

You’d have to be an idiot to think so.

Nevada is doing it right.  Mexico City is now doing it right.  Washington, DC is moving in the right direction.  As are a number of other states.

The Snowman (and Woman) Cometh.

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a limited-government grassroots advocacy organization, and government affairs counsel to the Nevada Brothel Association

In testimony on SB287 before the Assembly Committee on Government Affairs on June 3, 2019, lobbyist Danny Thompson urged support for an amendment that would make brothel work card applications – with highly personal information, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, emergency contact information, etc. – confidential in Nevada’s public records law.

As Mr. Thompson noted in his testimony, a Reno attorney, Jason Guinasso – who ran a ballot campaign last year to shut down Lyon County’s legal brothels (it failed, 80-20%) – has been trying to force the county to provide him with copies of 10 years’ worth of brothel work card applications under the state’s current public records law as written.

In talking about the suspicious motivation behind Mr. Guinasso’s effort to obtain this personal information, Mr. Thompson said, with an appropriate tinge of sarcasm, “Chances are, this individual does not want to send these women a Christmas card.”

Mr. Thompson also detailed a horrific physical assault recently perpetrated on a legal brothel worker in Reno, underscoring the danger of these records being disclosed. Keeping personal information provided in an employment application confidential is a critical protection for women in this industry who may be stalked, harassed or physically assaulted.

PROPOSED AMENDMENT

“To the extent County or local governments require work cards for certain occupations at establishments within a County or City, that County or local government board shall create and maintain a system of records and those records, including but not limited to applications, identity of applicants and work card holders or former work card holders, personal information of work card applicants or holders, may only be accessed by those persons or entities authorized by the County Commission or board having jurisdiction of such work cards.”

This would be similar to the protections gaming employees – who also must apply for a government work card – enjoy per NRS 463.335…

“Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, all records acquired or compiled by the Board or Commission relating to any application made pursuant to this section, all lists of persons registered as gaming employees, all lists of persons suspended or objected to by the Board and all records of the names or identity of persons engaged in the gaming industry in this State are confidential and must not be disclosed except in the proper administration of this chapter or to an authorized law enforcement agency.”

Thank you, Danny!

(Chuck Muth) – There’s a creepy lawyer/televangelist in Reno, Jason Guinasso, who’s on a moral crusade to shut down all of Nevada’s legal brothels.  He’s not only pressuring the Nevada Legislature to do so, but has filed a federal lawsuit asking Washington, DC to do it for him.

But there’s something even more sinister about what Guinasso is up to.

When you apply for a job, you fill out an employment application.  But when you apply for a job with a gaming, liquor or brothel business in Nevada, you must also fill out a separate application with the government in order to receive a “work card” allowing you to work in those industries.

And for two years now Guinasso has been badgering, pestering, threatening and berating Lyon County officials in an effort to force the local sheriff to give him copies of all the brothel work card applications for the past ten years.

And those applications contain a TON of highly personal information, including…

• Real name, as well as “stage” name
• Social Security number
• Home addresses for last three years
• Date and place of birth
• Passport number
• Child support information
• Race
• “Tattoos, piercings, marks & major scars”
• Emergency contact info (often provided w/o contact’s knowledge)
• Previous employers for past three years

This information – which individuals are required to provide the government in order to work – should never be made public for any private citizen seeking employment in any private business.  At the very least it makes them far more vulnerable to identity theft.

But it’s even more dangerous than that.

While there aren’t a lot of mentally unstable, potentially violent stalkers out there showing up at the homes and businesses of liquor store clerks and blackjack dealers, the same can’t be said for the women who work in Nevada’s legal brothels.

Just last week, brothel worker Tiara Tae posted the following on Twitter…

“A client came up to my personal door last night asking for sexual favors.  MY HOUSE DOOR.  MY HOME.”

In a separate incident, former brothel worker and UNLV researcher Christina Parreira tweeted the following – again, just a week ago…

“(T)his is still one of the creepiest things that can happen to a sex worker.  A man came up (to her current non-brothel place of employment), asked for me and did not give his name when I introduced myself; said he knew me from every Twitter account I have.”

And if you don’t think this sort of thing is not only creepy but extremely dangerous, consider the following warning notice that was posted at one of Nevada’s legal brothels last month…

“This guy frequents (brothel name redacted).  He is stalking one of the girls, waiting outside her home, chasing her thru the streets of Reno.  Has beat her up, knocked her teeth out, put sugar in her gas tank, calls her 100’s of x’s per day.  He needs to not to be allowed in, he’s dangerous.”

So there is a clear and present danger to these women should their personal information be made public through a public records request.

And whether you agree with legal brothels or not, I think we can all agree the women who work there shouldn’t have their teeth knocked out, right?

Oh, and just for the record, note that this attack happened OUTSIDE the brothel.  Inside the brothel the women are protected.  It’s on the street where the true danger lurks.

OK.  NRS 239.0105 declares that certain public records are considered confidential if they “contain the name, address, telephone number or other identifying information of a natural person” under certain specified circumstances.

Unfortunately, work card applications are not currently included. But a short 9-word “Brothel Work Card Confidentiality” amendment to the statute would fix the problem.

Simply change the language to state that records containing such personal information are considered confidential if the person is providing the information to a local government entity for the purpose of “Applying to work at a duly licensed legal brothel.”

Or similar words to that effect.

That would exempt brothel work card applications from Nevada’s public records law and shut Guinasso down in his tracks.

Unfortunately, it’s too late in this legislative session to introduce a new bill to amend NRS 239.  However…

It’s NOT too late to amend an existing bill to accomplish the same end.  The only criteria is that the amendment be “germane” – meaning it’s relevant to the subject matter of the bill under consideration.

Which brings us to SB388 – a bill sponsored by Sen. Mo Denis (D-Las Vegas) which was heard by the Senate Finance Committee on Monday.

The big question is this: Is the issue of making work card applications confidential “germane” to the bill?  Well, the bill’s title reads…

“AN ACT relating to public records; providing for the designation of certain public records and portions of public records as confidential…”

I don’t know how it could be any more germane, especially since the Legislature has Humpty Dumpty-like powers to make “germane” mean whatever they want it to mean.

SB388 amends NRS 239 to read as follows…

“Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a record or portion of a record that contains personally identifiable information collected by automated means over the Internet or other digital network by a governmental entity as part of the electronic collection of information from the general public is confidential if the governmental entity determines that the disclosure of the personally identifiable information could potentially create negative consequences, including, without limitation, financial loss, stigmatization, harm to reputation, anxiety, embarrassment, fear or other physical or emotional harm, for the person to whom the information pertains.”

Now, the public disclosure of brothel work card applications absolutely could potentially create negative consequences such as stigmatization, anxiety, embarrassment, fear, or other physical or emotional harm for the women who seek to obtain such employment.

Seriously.  It just doesn’t get any more “germane” than that.

But here’s the problem…

Work card applications aren’t completed and submitted “by automated means” online over the Internet.  You still have to fill them out by hand and submit an old-fashioned paper-and-ink form.

But a simple tweaking of the text specifically declaring work card applications to be confidential regardless of how they are submitted would do the trick.

And the one person in Carson City with the ability to make this happen is Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro (D-Las Vegas).

Sen. Cannizzaro is a Deputy District Attorney for Clark County, so she’s more than familiar with the very real dangers sex workers face.

And as the Senate Majority Leader she has near-godlike power to declare a brothel work card confidentiality amendment – which really should include gaming and liquor work applications, as well – to be “germane” to SB388 and throw her full support behind it.

Without Sen. Cannizzaro’s support right now – before the bill’s final version is voted on and the 2019 session ends – the women who work in Nevada’s legal brothels risk having their personal information disclosed through a public records request from people like Guinasso and the guy who knocked one worker’s teeth out last month.

So if you want to see a “Brothel Work Card Confidentiality Amendment” added to SB388 (or any other “germane” bill that’s still out there), you need to contact Sen. Cannizzaro and let her know not only how important this is, but explain why the problem should be fixed now and not wait for two years until the next legislative session.

To ask for Sen. Cannizzaro’s help on this issue, you can contact her office by calling (775) 684-1475 or email her at Nicole.Cannizzaro@sen.state.nv.us.

But don’t wait.  Call or write TODAY.  There’s only a week to go before the end of session.  So speak now or forever hold your peace.

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a limited-government grassroots advocacy organization, and government affairs counsel to the Nevada Brothel Association.  His views are his own.

(Chuck Muth) – A pair of anti-brothel crusaders, Melissa Holland and Laila Mickelwait, inked a column on Friday that once again demonstrates exactly why they hide behind blog posts, social media and videos…

Like vampires, the light of day kills their arguments.

Indeed, when brothel-banner Julie Bindel went head-to-head against UNLV brothel researcher Christina Parreira in a BBC-hosted debate last month, Parreira cleaned Bindel’s clock. Shot down every one of her arguments like Tom Cruise shooting down those Russian MiG’s over the Indian Ocean in “Top Gun.”

It’s also why, during last fall’s campaign in Lyon County, Nevada to ban legal brothels there, the ballot question sponsors refused to debate the issue in a series of townhall meetings with Alice Little and Ruby Rae, a pair of legal courtesans at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch.

They KNEW Alice and Ruby would rip their arguments to shreds if they were actually forced to back up their misrepresentations and propaganda.

Which is why Holland, Mickelwait and others hide behind blog posts and videos.  Their arguments and claims simply can’t survive scrutiny and cross-examination.

For example, Holland and Mickelwait started off yesterday’s disinformation blog post thusly…

“Forty-eight years ago prostitution was legalized in Nevada and as a result, Nevada has developed into a breeding ground for sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.  In fact, Nevada has the highest rate of prostitution in the country – its illegal sex trade is 63% higher than the next highest state.”

First off, prostitution wasn’t legalized in Nevada.  What actually happened is that Nevada allowed rural counties to legalize, license and regulate brothels if they so chose.  Brothels were NOT legalized in Clark and Washoe counties – where Las Vegas and Reno are located.

As such, it’s a darn-near criminal misrepresentation to claim that “Nevada” is a “breeding ground” for sex trafficking when those highly-questionable statistics are actually based on Las Vegas and Reno where legal brothels are banned.

Buy, hey, why let facts get in the way of a false argument designed to create mass hysteria, right?

Next comes the claim that “legal prostitution increases the demand for prostitution.”

Oh, puh-lease.  The nearest legal brothel to the Las Vegas Strip is almost 90 minutes away.  Which means most clients and providers of consensual adult sexual interaction opt for the risk of engaging illegally in their Las Vegas hotel room rather than spend three hours driving back-and-forth in a car.

The notion that a legal brothel located an hour-and-a-half away “increases the demand” for sex-for-fee services is laughable on its face.

Of course, no hysteria-inducing propaganda campaign is complete without invoking “the children.”

“In Nevada alone,” Holland and Mickelwait blubber, “there is a demand for over 20,000 innocent women and children sold online every year.”

Source?  Back-up?  Substantiation?

None.  Of course.

“In order to abolish sex trafficking, we must eliminate the demand for prostitution,” the Disinformation Duo continues.  “The demand elimination strategy is the only way to put pimps and traffickers out of business.”

First, you’re never going to “eliminate the demand” for paid sex.  That’s why it’s called the “world’s oldest profession.”

Secondly, the “demand elimination strategy” has never worked and never will.  Let history be your guide.  Remember “prohibition” on alcohol and gaming?  And how’s that “war on drugs” thing worked out?

You’re barking up the wrong tree, ladies.  As failed social experiments go, your “demand elimination strategy” is right there at the top of the list.

They did get one thing correct, though, when they argued that “women in prostitution shouldn’t be arrested.”  Which, ahem, is exactly the case when it comes to Nevada’s legal brothels – which they’re trying to shut down!

But then they go on to argue that, instead, the clients “should be arrested and their crimes should be felony-level offenses.”

Um, why should a consensual act between two adults be illegal for one party but not the other?  Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

This ridiculous proposal is what’s called the “Nordic model” – a thoroughly discredited idea that supporters trot out as some kind of silver bullet that’ll cleanse society and usher in a new Era of Moral Nirvana.

It’s a future best viewed through rose-colored glasses while riding a unicorn.

“Legal prostitution in Nevada has brought severe harm to the women and girls who’ve been pulled into prostitution over the last 48 years,” Holland and Mickelwait conclude.  “It’s time to end the toxic prostitution industry in Nevada. It has to stop. Now.”

Because (heads up Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority): “Nevada is not safe for women.”

Except…

That opinion isn’t shared by the grown, adult, consenting women who actually work in Nevada’s legal brothels.  Here’s just a small sampling of their take on the subject…

• “In the brothels, we have the choice, always, to say which clients we will say yes and no to. We have staff that would never let a man hurt us, and we have a clientele that do not come here to hurt us.” – Ruby Rae

• “I’m not ‘exploited.’ I’m not ‘trafficked.’ I’m not ‘brainwashed.’ I don’t need to be ‘saved.’ I’ve freely chosen this line of work, which is a legal, private transaction between consenting adults.” – Paris Envy

• “We are human beings who chose to do sex work of our own free will. We get treated with respect and like family at the brothels. It’s a job just like any other job. We sell a service that all humans need.” – Kiki Lover

• “Sex work is definitely not my last resort or my only option – it is my CHOICE. I’d like to continue to have the opportunity to make that choice legally.” – Christina Parreira

• “It’s ILLEGAL sex work that exploits children. It’s ILLEGAL sex work that traffics. It’s ILLEGAL sex work that sees women exploited and abused by pimps.” – Alice Little

Adds Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)…

“If a consenting adult wants to engage in sex work, that is their right, and it should not be a crime. All people should have autonomy over their bodies and their labor.”

Exactly.

I thought we were supposed to trust women?  “My body, my choice,” right?  So, um, who’s gonna save these women from the “saviors”?

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a limited-government grassroots advocacy organization, and government affairs counsel to the Nevada Brothel Association

(Chuck Muth) – “When police charged New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft with soliciting prostitution, the press said the police rescued sex slaves,” writes syndicated columnist John Stossel.  “We’re told this happens all the time.”

However…

“It’s bunk, says reporter Elizabeth Nolan Brown.”

Brown notes that at the time of Kraft’s arrest, law enforcement and the media claimed they had “busted up an international sex trafficking ring.”

“But now prosecutors acknowledge that there was no trafficking,” Stossel continues.  “The women were willing sex workers.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the headlines are not true,” Brown told Stossel in an interview. “Sex trafficking and prostitution are sort of used interchangeably.”

“Sex slavery is evil,” Stossel concluded.  “Authorities should do everything they can to stop it. But there is a big difference between slavery and sex work done by consenting adults.”

Amen.

Nevada legislators should keep this difference in mind as anti-brothel advocates continue their assault on Nevada’s legal brothels.

Click here to read Mr. Stossel’s full column